Shacknews posted a bit that the developers of GW’s Blood Bowl will be doing a computer version of Rackham’s Confrontation– and absolutely excellent miniature skirmish game (at least the 3.0/3.5 rules era). Now I have another excuse to NEVER PAINT MY DRUNE.
Link for more info. This is one I will be following as closely as allowed by the interweb tubes.
Due to some much-needed wiring assistance over the weekend, I got the new box all set up and downloading FURIOUSLY from Steam. Though I was able to spark up Bad Company 2 for a few moments yesterday morning, my lovely, darling daughter came in to ask if she could sit on my lap while I ‘rode in the car’ which was actually a boat headed towards some nameless pacific island. I said yes, but then I remembered the first kill in Bad Company 2 was up the back with a knife and so just shut it down before seeing any of the amazing particle or lighting effects denied to me with my socket 939. That said, the first game I actually played last night, guiltily, was Torchlight. I just wanted to check if my character data was actually there up inside the steamcloud and, being that it was, ended up being an hour of destroying goblin hounds and the like.
I did span some time with Bad Company 2, just the single player, and goodness me it is pretty. The initial area of the Bolivia mapset is nothing short of amazing with the lighting, particles and foliage. Breathtaking stuff. Combining that BFBC2 is just flat out fun as shit makes this probably my only pick for game of the year 2010 on the PC (like all the magazine’s and websites have already stated, and I wholly agree, Red Dead Redemption is the game of the year in the Xboxen region), because I haven’t gotten around to Starcraft 2 yet. One cannot judge 2010 from any level: technologically, socially, musically, culturally or emotionally without experiencing Starcraft 2 (well, I was in the multiplayer beta for some beatings but that’s not enough), so I have to officially hold back judgement of GOTY until I get that shit put to bed. Given that I still play Warcraft 3 from 2003, I have a feeling.
Very happy with my build out and thanks to sensless for coming by to help put it together and everyone for their advice. The Ars Technica article that came out the day before I was making my purchase choices helped enormously, especially in the choice of case (Power is on TOP so no tiny hands switching off the power randomly) and solidifying the motherboard choice. I could have gone more hardcore with the video card, but the GTX 560 is doing the trick. Here is the list of stuffs:
Tonight it’s Unreal Tournament 3 and whether or not I go Crysis 2 or Bulletstorm…(or Starcraft 2).
Platinum Games (Madworld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta) has put out some amazing and, in my opinion, underrated titles since they reformed from the defunct Clover Studio (creators of both the legendary God Hand and Okami). While God Hand is one of the greatest titles on the PS2, it is not the best. That glory belongs to the only beast left on the stage after all others have stepped down beneath the footlights: Urban Reign by Namco. Seen as Tekken toaster leavings in the States, Urban Reign, like God Hand, is an extremely difficult Double Dragon style brawler, one with some exceedingly unforgiving levels, well, unforgiving if like most of the reviewers of the game, you never bother to learn the fighting system. Hence the game, one of Namco’s best, was reviled by reviewers in the USA who typically get a game on a Wednesday and have to have a completed review on Friday. This is simply not possible with a game as difficult as Urban Reign (nor God Hand, nor Demon’s Souls). Of course, Japanese reviewers actually take the time to play the games they review, and it was put on the pedestal it deserves by the Japanese. Out since ’05, only in the last couple years have purveyors of punchy type video games spread the word of mouth across the Pacific that Urban Reign is not only one of the best Double Dragon-esque brawlers, it is the best game on the Playstation 2. While the single player is OK, what makes Urban Reign great is the multiplayer. It supports 4 person multi-tap, and if you haven’t experienced the game in this way, I urge you to go out and buy it and a multitap and do so, or find someone that has one. The game itself can be had for a song, the mulitap– not so much.
Namco, where’s the sequel? Steeped in Tekken, and probably brow beaten by poor sales over seas, I honestly don’t see Namco pulling out the franchise again in a recognizable form on a modern console (hell though anything is getting made into a mobile game these days). So where do we look for the next great Multiplayer brawler? Yeah, Platinum Game’s Anarchy Reigns. Looks like online co-op, online free for all (I counted 4 players total duking it out, but interviews say 8 at a time) and from the videos online so far– an assload of lag! No word yet on any single player, but the interviews (see below) have entirely focused on the multiplayer action. Needless to say, it looks a lot like Urban Reign, and of course the use of the word Reigns in the title is probably no accident. Obviously we mustn’t overlook the distinct similarities to the also excellent Power Stone series. While this seems great, Anarchy Reigns is stepping into the ring with some of the best games in existence, including titles like War of the Monsters and even Twisted Metal, including one I have to give props to but dislike quite a bit: Smash Brothers Brawl.
The characters in Anarchy Reigns seem your standard Platinum fare– that is totally foaming at the mouth berserk. The only semi-normal character is the ice lady above, but even she has a BARCODE ACROSS HER TITS. The rest of the revealed cast so far are pretty much cracked out stereotypes. Four of the characters are straight from Madworld and I’m sure we’ll see a few more from it. Whether Platinum can tap into their Clover IP is yet to be seen but you could see Gene, Devil Hand, Shannon and Elvis. The lady in waiting for announcement is, of course, Bayonetta. Since Bayonetta 2 is confirmed, I doubt you will see her as a playable character but who knows. Her and that other witch with the red glasses would make fine editions, though they seem a bit over powered compared to the current cast (they can stop time and all that jazz).
Fall of 11 is going to be a brutal time with Elder Scrolls and this busting out. I need to make sure to spend my summer entirely outdoors in a tent raped nightly by animals digging up from under the earth.
There are a lot of videos out there, but this limey one seems the best of the bunch for a quick view of what the game is about:
Interview with the Producer: Atasushi Inaba.
Though it’s sad to see the socket 939 up and die and then be disassembled forever anon, the new beast that’s soon to take the stage makes that look like a 3rd grader’s public school issued laptop.
I stuck the DVD drive and the PSU up inside and will wrap the rest tomorrow. Then the deluge from Steam will begin.
Don’t we all? Do I really need to compound the issue with this?
This came out earlier than I thought. Great stuff!
Just announced by Games Workshop– this is going to be essential reading for everyone that plays Warhammer, and I think, all gamers everywhere.
10 miniatures a month complete. Seems easy? Doable? Yes and yes. How could I have failed? I blame the weather and Rackham! The first week of the month started off awesome: I finished 6 Beastmen Gor and was poised to meet the goal by mid month– if I had had any more primed Gor or Ungor. Then the weather turned from bitter cold to the drizzlin shits of rain, where priming was impossible. So I grabbed one of my bigger models, the hound of scathach from Confrontation 3, as a stand in for a Razorgor and that took two weeks. Eventually the weather cleared and was able to get a mess of stuff primed and I tried to pull it out and get to 10 in the last couple days, but I just couldn’t pull it off. Still it’s only 103 points…
April has to be 14 or I’m no brushman.
Longest underwater card game in human history. Of course it would be Sheepshead, of course! I wonder how they signaled when someone was a PISSANT MAUER?